Problem
When running CPU and GPU client, the CPU was registering 40,000 PPD and the GPU is 16,995 PPD. This hasn't changed for the past 3 months on client 2685.
Due to heat, im turning my systems off - and turned my GPU off yesterday. I check HFM.net today and without my GPU running, the CPU client is at 57,000 PPD exactly.

I skoffed at people when they said they were getting 50k PPD on the clients (2685 to be precise) because I could never see that much on my system. However now i'm boggled.

Boggled I tell you!

WTF am I doing wrong.?... running the GPU client doesn't help me any?

Theories, explanations.. I don't go on many forums other than this or NCIX, and have 0 time to research this.

My first thing i'm going to try is -smp 11, and run the GPU client on the core that isn't in use.. other than doing this manually in windows, I've heard of programs like Prifinity or something. Well, I could try that when my folding rig gets back into working mode.

Help a folder out!

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I'll learn to manage my anger, when people learn to manage their stupid.

Totally normal. Your gpu client is stealing cpu cycles. As you mentionned, use prifinitty to lower the gpu client priority or use a single cpu core for the gpu client.

Damn you beat me to it.

I'm starting to notice that this sorta PPD "problem" only seems to affect people with Core i7 that have 8 threads doing SMP/bigadv folding. I haven't noticed such a problem when I had my Core 2 Duo and with my Phenom II X4 doing SMP folding.

I'm starting to notice that this sorta PPD "problem" only seems to affect people with Core i7 that have 8 threads doing SMP/bigadv folding. I haven't noticed such a problem when I had my Core 2 Duo and with my Phenom II X4 doing SMP folding.

I never had the problem w/ VMWare/Linux folding either. I had 5 GPUs and was still pulling 32k out of an bigadv. And the system was never laggy.

I'm starting to notice that this sorta PPD "problem" only seems to affect people with Core i7 that have 8 threads doing SMP/bigadv folding. I haven't noticed such a problem when I had my Core 2 Duo and with my Phenom II X4 doing SMP folding.

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Originally Posted by lowfat

I never had the problem w/ VMWare/Linux folding either. I had 5 GPUs and was still pulling 32k out of an bigadv. And the system was never laggy.

Windows client however.....

The problem has always existed. The difference is that the A3 core is better at taking full advantage of CPUs compared to the A2 core, and the bonus program means that PPD is now much more sensitive to TPF changes than it used to be.